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Many entries on meetings including the Banking Education Committee, the Cunliffe Committee on Currency and Foreign Exchanges After the War, the London County Council Education Committee, the War Cabinet Committee, the Industrial Boys Home Committee and the League of Nations Society; references to the war are to personal inconveniences rather than international events and Addis also refers to his family, riding, reading and theatre and concert visits. Lady Addis's few entries concern her family.
JANUARY Meets and advises Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, head of the foreign Office department of Overseas Trade, 'clever, energetic and frank', 14; worsening food shortages in England; death of brother Tom, 24; writing article for Edinburgh Review on 'Some Problems of British Banking'.
MARCH Attends meetings of the Cunliffe Currency Committee.
APRIL Attends meetings of the LCC Education Committee and the Banking Education Committee.
MAY Pleased to be asked to contribute to Royal Silver Wedding gift, also to become a director of the Bank of England. 'That I should have lived to see the day.' 29.
JUNE Continued Currency Committee meetings and many visits to the Bank of England for Waiting Committee, Staff Committee and Bank Court meetings.
JULY Examined by Bank of England Committee on proposed increase of capital and state profit sharing, 'I pressed hard for refusing State participation in profits and maintaining absolute independence of Banking Dept,' 3; article in The Edinburgh Review well received but Addis dissatisfied; family holiday at Castle Hedingham, Essex, 'saw German prisoners at work in the fields without guard and apparently on friendly relations with the country people which is as it ought to be.' 27.
AUGUST Death of colleague Smith; first interim report of Cunliffe Currency Committee produced, Addis alone objecting to some clauses; to Treasury for meeting on silver; son Tom on leave from Italy.
SEPTEMBER Attends meeting to start new National War Bond campaign.
OCTOBER With wife to visit family in Scotland; attends meeting of Gold Production Committee.
NOVEMBER Attends Gold Production Committee meetings; notes the amalgamation of the League of Nations Society and the League of Free Nations with Grey as President; on Armistice Day 'people are subdued by the awfulness of our victory and the complexity of the task ahead.' 14.
DECEMBER Appears before War Cabinet Committee on German Indemnity.
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